🥑EVERYBODY LOVES AVOCADOS 🥑

Avocados have recently become a hit with Western and North American society. You can put them on your toast, in a wrap, a salad, and of course indulge in loads and loads of guac. Needless to say, these gems have been the subject of growing controversies. They have risen in popularity so fast thanks to their health benefits and simply because they are delicious. Even so, the fruit never could have reached its current status without its arrival and flourishing in California. It wasn’t until around the turn of the last century that people started planting avocado trees in California, where the rich soil of our state fostered the Mexican transplant. Interest in the fruit began churning upward following the accidental creation of the Hass variety. The “mother tree” was planted by Rudolph Hass in La Habra Heights in 1926, and patented in 1935. Unfortunately, the world's growing infatuation with them means that the environmental impact of avocados is becoming increasingly more problematic. Like sugar, coffee, palm oil, and corn, avocados are in very high demand. This has resulted in them becoming a monoculture in many places. In other words, large swaths of agricultural land aren't being used to grow anything but avocados. I think you can see where this might be going. If you don't, click the button below to learn more!